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Keith is right, if you want to insert current date you can use CURDATE() or NOW() (if your field type is DATETIME, NOW() will also insert current time in the format "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss"). For user agent, since you use PHP to insert data, you should use $HTTP_USER_AGENT (it's a PHP variable). Your query will be like this :